Installing BootCamp after VMware Fusion

[Warner]

Hello everyone,

How can I install BootCamp after Fusion already installed?

I read that the reverse was no problem (unlike Fusion settles on the BootCamp partition) but I do not want to uninstall Fusion and then all I have to re-install ...

How?

Thank you

[Una]

Hi,

VMWare is just a program, doesn't do anything. Go ahead and install Windows XP/Vista through Boot Camp. Afterwards, reboot back into OSX and start VMWare Fusion. It'll detect your boot camp partition and just select that. Install VMWare Tools (it should install automatically) and there you go, one windows, 2 methods of accessing it.

[Trojan123]

Hi,

You need to convert a virtual machine installation of Windows using Fusion into a Boot Camp partition so you can use the same Windows desktop from native booting in Boot Camp or via virtualization from the Mac OS. That is what I'm doing now, but I had to start again from scratch loading Windows via Boot Camp and then starting VMware's Fusion. For what it is worth using Tiger and Parallels you could do things in the opposite order (set up your Windows environment virtually first, then set up Boot Camp).